Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high-impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, interviewing key contributors, and researching new technology. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
OpenAPI: The Key to Cloud-Native Success?
Web APIs are the glue between modern connected software, enabling applications to expose data and functionality to the outside world. They’ve become common within B2B partner models and even public monetization strategies ...
10+ Open Source Kubernetes-Native Observability Tools
Kubernetes is revolutionizing the way modern enterprises manage their cloud infrastructure. But as the technology develops, so does the need for visibility into systems running on Kubernetes. Without proper observability, it’s hard ...
How To Avoid Cloud-Native Observability Tooling Sprawl
Observability is becoming increasingly crucial for companies employing containerized environments and Kubernetes. A recent CNCF report finds that 72% of respondents use as many as nine different tools to monitor their cloud-native ...
6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Deploying Kubernetes
Since its debut in 2015, Kubernetes has steadily grown into a de facto container orchestrator. Gartner estimates that by 2026, 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production. To ...
2022 in Review: Kubernetes’ Big Year
2022 was a big year for cloud-native technologies—especially for Kubernetes, which became a platform of choice for digital transformation and cloud-native workloads. As such, much of this year’s discussion revolved around Kubernetes ...
Best of 2022: Hardening Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Environments
As we close out 2022, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Kubernetes ...
Best of 2022: The Fathers of Kubernetes: Where Are They Now?
As we close out 2022, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Kubernetes, ...
Report Highlights Complexity in Implementing Cloud-Native Observability
The use of cloud-native containers and microservices, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, is becoming more and more commonplace. A full 75% of companies are now focusing on constructing cloud-native applications ...
10 Cloud-Native Predictions for 2023
2022 was a big year for cloud-native technology, especially for Kubernetes. The open source container orchestration platform saw a tremendous surge in adoption. Developer experience with Kubernetes steadily improved to the point ...
Introduction To Flux
GitOps has become a chosen strategy for releasing and deploying cloud-native microservices. The goal of GitOps, a term coined by Alexis Richardson, CEO of Weaveworks, in 2017, is to “make operations automatic ...
